by Public Library of Science By 2011, older people with most health conditions were living longer and spending a smaller proportion of remaining life with disability, than their counterparts in 1991. Cognitive impairment was the only health condition where the prevalence decreased between 1991 and 2011 but where the proportion of remaining life spent with...
by Buck Institute for Research on Aging Each of the analyzed fly strains arranged by response to dietary restriction. The overlapping bars show the increase or decrease in lifespan (grey bars) or healthspan (purple bars) when that fly strain underwent dietary restriction. Most strains show positive responses, but a number of strains show negative responses...
Mice, like any other animal, do not age gracefully—they lose weight, move less, and their coats become patchy. But mice of a particular strain in Daniel Kalman’s lab at Emory University School of Medicine ward off these declines. The secret, Kalman has found, is in the animals’ guts. In a study published in PNAS this week, Kalman and...
Permanently cutting the daily calories you consume may turn out to have a profound effect on your future life, according to some tantalising scientific studies. In a restaurant setting sometime in the not-too distant future, a man and a woman are on their first date. After the initial nerves subside, all is going well. The...
